RU CIA? Hell no. Would never have served under Brennan or most the incompetents before him. Check Leon Panetta’s background at www.keywiki.org for some interesting information.
Re Alex Jones. Look up a writer named “Frank Capell”, New Jersey, from the 1960’s and you’ll see why I don’t trust a lot of what Jones says. They could have been twins.
I’m just an old guy with some real life experience in CI work, plus a little time in Nam, working for Congress, etc.
Also a journalist for almost 50 years (and never been sued, banned (except when one editor turned “progressive”), or even smeared by the Left (I feel like the Maytag Repair Man). They have threatened but they slunk away like the cowards they were when confronted by “facts, documents facts”, not theories, half-truths, or distorted writings.
Amazing what tape-recordings, photos, and internal documents can do to threats of lawsuits.
In the “game” of journalism and even historical writing, you’ve got to be accurate, concise in context and the way your write, documenting every major and many minor “statements of fact”, and just plain in the real world. You can’t be “half in and half out” which is how I feel about Jones.
I do support his right to “free speech” and am against efforts to ban him from Twitter, Facebook, etc. when he is falsely accused of violations of their leftist that are only for conservatives and even moderates.
I’m not afraid of a level playing field because I have enough confidence in what I write to stand on that field. However, I’ve known people in the past who started out with good intentions and projects who later left the track of reasonableness. Associating with them at that point became a personal and professional liability because the Marxist Left is just waiting for you to make one slip up, even an unintentional one, so that they can launch a smear campaign against you.
This Homey don’t play that game!
One difference between Frank Capell and that era and Alex Jones and the present is that Capell was unable to reach millions through his newsletters and books. He was, to the Establishment of that era, safely confined in the right wing ghetto with the Birch Society and the like. Jones and the alternative media reach millions by bypassing the old broadcast and print media that kept Capell, Dan Smoot, and the like from the general public. Today’s Establishment is counting on Big Tech to shut them down.